Best of 2025, Day 7 - Avondale Audio NAP 250 Upgrade

Best of 2025

It’s Day 7 of the Best of 2025 here at HF&MS, and today, the award goes to a most surprising winner that emerged during my Naim Audio upgrade journey.  I have written frequently about the New Naim Classic equipment being unaffordable. As such, I’ve been on a trip to make the Old Classic equipment at least approach the quality of New Classic amplifiers.  I found that Avondale was offering a leap in performance to Old Naim Classic NAP 250 owners who can only look wistfully at the New Naim Classic equipment.

Congratulations to Avondale Audio for their NAP 250 Upgrades and this Best of 2025 award. Read the review here.

Don’t forget the Best of 2025 will continue this week and next. The complete list of Product of the Year 2025 contenders is here. The full list includes all of the reviews completed here at HF&MS in 2025. The Best of 2025 awards are not necessarily the best audiophile products, but rather the ones that had the most tremendous impact on the writers here at HF&MS.

Here are the Winners so far;

Day 1 – Focal DIVA UTOPIA

Day 2 – REL T/9x SE Subwoofer Stereo Pair

Day 3 – Tellurium Q Ultra Silver II loudspeaker cable

Day 4 – Fell Audio integrated amplifier and CD Player

Day 5 – A&ultima SP3000M portable audio player

Day 6 – Merlin Cables, Tarantula loudspeaker cables